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ADVANCE IN SURGERY
HOW,IT DIFFERS NOW FROM WHAT IT
WAS FIFTY YEAR8 AGO.
The Horror of tho Knife Up to the Dis¬
covery of Anaesthesia—Danger H Well
•i 1'tUu In the Operation—First Cm of
Ether by Dr. William T. G. Morton.
One of tho most Interesting papers
rend at the eelebrution in Boston of the
fiftieth unniversary of tho first adminis¬
tration of ether in a surgical operation,
says the Philadelphia Record, was that
by Dr. John Ashhurst of this city on
“Surgery Before the Days of Anaesthet¬
ics. " It vividly recalls tho horrors of
those days when tho surgeon’s knife was
an object of fur greater terror than now
and inflicted untold tortures upon tho
conscious patient.
“A study of the condition of surgery
before the days of antesthesin,” said Dr.
Ashhurst. “reveals on the ono hand a
picture of heroic boldness and masterly
self control on tho part of the surgeon,
und on the other a ghastly panorama,
sometimes of stole fortitude and endur¬
ance, sometimes of abject terror and hu¬
miliation—but always of agonizing
wretchedness and pain—on tho part of
the nnliuppy victim who required the
surgeon's aid
"The ’pitilessness' which Ceicus urged
as an esseutiul trait iu the operative sur¬
geon wuh, before the days of anaesthesia,
a feature in the surgeon’s career which
impressed very strongly tho public gen¬
erally os well os those immediately con¬
nected with the operation. It is inter¬
esting to recall that Hlr James Simpson
of Edinburgh, shortly after beginning
his professional studies, was so affected
by 'seeing the terrible ogouy of a poor
Highland woman under amputation of
the breast' that he resolved to abandon
a medical career and seok other occupa¬
tion. Happily his intention was recon¬
sidered, and he returned to his studies,
asking himself, ‘Can anything bo done
to make operations less painful?’ and,
M every one knows, in less than 20
years he became a high priest of anaes¬
thesia and the introducer into surgical
and obstetrical practice of ether's great
rival, chloroform.
*‘No braver or more gallant gentle¬
man ever lived than Admiral Viscount
Nelson, and after his right elbow had
been shattered by a French bnllet in the
assault at Tenerife he manifested the
utmost courngo, refusing to be taken to
the nearest ship lest the sight of hi? in¬
jury should alarm the wife of a fellow
officer whose own fate was uncertain,
and when his owu ship was reached he
climbed up its side without assistance,
saying: ‘Tell the surgeon to make baste
and get his instruments. I know I must
lose my right arm, so the sooner it Is off
the better. ’ ‘He underwent tho amputa¬
tion, ’ we learn from a private letter of
ouo of his midshipmen, ‘with tbe same
firmness aud courage that have always
marked his character.' And.yet so pain¬
fully was he affected by tho coldneSs of
the operator’s knife that when next go¬
ing into action at the famous battle of
the Nilo he gave standing orders to his
surgeons that hot water should always
be kept in readiness during an engage¬
ment, so that if another operation should
be required bo might at least have the
poor comfort of being cut with warm
instruments.
“On the side of tbe surgeon we find
throughout tbe ages a constant effort to
diminish tbe terrors of operations and a
continuous reprobation of the distress¬
ful, not to say cruel, modes of prac¬
tice adopted by preceding generations.
And yet tbe time is not very far distant
from ours when they lopped off a limb
by striking it violently with a heavy
knife; that time when they knew nei¬
ther how to stop nor how to prevent
hemorrhage but by burning tbe part
whence the blood jetted with boiling oil
or the redhot iron; that timo when sur¬
geons armed themselves at every mo¬
ment with pinchers, with burning cau¬
teries and with instruments tho repre¬
sentations even of which cause terror.
“But the presence of pain was not tbe
only evil dreaded by our predecessors in
attempting Important operations. The
great risk of fatal accident from some in¬
voluntary movement of the patient was
constantly present to the mind of the
conscientious surgeon. ‘Bow often, ’ says
Dr. Valentine Mett, ‘when operating In
some deep, dark wound, along the Course
of some great vein, with thin walls al¬
ternately distended and flaccid with the
vital current—how often have I dreadod
that some unfortunate struggle of tbe
patient would deviate the knife a little
from its proper course and that I, who
fain would be tbe deliverer, should in¬
voluntarily become tho executioner, see¬
ing my patient perish in my hands by
the most appalling form of death! Had
he been insensible I should have felt no
alarm. ’
“Coming down to the days more im¬
mediately preceding the date of the
groat discovery, we find that opium aud
alcohol were tbe only ageuts which con¬
tinued to be regarded as of practical
value in diminishing the pain of opera¬
tions, though the attendant disadvan¬
tages of their employment wore of course
recognized. Meanwhile facts were accu
mnlating thtf significance of which we
now plainly recognize, but which ex¬
cited no attention.
‘‘Sir Humphry Davy, iu the early
days of the nineteenth century, suggest¬
ed the use of nitrous oxide gas as an
anaesthotic in minor operations, and it
was the custom at some of our medical
schools—at the University of Pennsyl¬
vania, for one—for stndents to breathe
’laughing gas,’as ft was then called,
for diversion. But yet—and yet—sur¬
geons went on, in every country, catting
and burning, and patients went on
writhing and screaming, until on the
18th day of October, in the year 1848 ,
in the Massachusetts General hospital,
Dr. John C. Warren painlessly removed
a tumor from a man who bad previously
been etherized by Dr. William T. G.
Morton, and snrgical anaesthesia be¬
came the priceless heritage of the civi¬
lized world.”
A BOY AND AN ORANGE.
Laurence Hutton Tell* How lie Niiecumb
ud to u Tuiuptation In HI* Youth.
Tho boy wan taught, from the earliest
awakening of his miaouing powers, that
truth was to bo told and to be respected
and that nothing was more wicked or
more ungeutJeinanly than a broken
promise. Ho learned very oarly to do its
he was told and not to do, under any
consideration, what he hud said ho would
not da Upon this lust point ho wut
strictly conscientious, although once,
literally, ho “boat about tho bush. »*
His Aunt Margaret, always devoted to
plants and to dowers, had, on tho bock
stoop of his grandfather's house, a little
grove of orange und lemon trees in pots.
Some ouo of these wus usually in fruil
or in flower, and the fruit to the boy
was fond a groat temptutioo. He was very
of oranges, and it scorned to him
Unit a “homomudo" orange, which ho
bad never tasted, must bo much better
thou a grocer's orange, us homemade
cake was certainly preferable even to
tho wouderful cukes made by tho pro¬
fessional Mrs. Milderbergez.
Ho watched tlioso little green oranges
from day to day as they gradually grow
big and yellow In the sun. Ho promised
faithfully that he would not pick any,
but ho hud a notion that some of them
might drop off. He never shook tho trees,
b&'-mso lie said ho would not But ho
shook tho stoop, and ho hung about tho
bush, which ho was too honest to beat.
One unusually tempting orange, which
he had known from its budhood, Anally
overcame him. Ho did not pick it off,
he ilid not shake it off. He compromised
with his conscience by lying flat on his
buck ami biting off a piece of it It was
not a very good action, nor was it a good
orange, and for that reason, perhaps, he
went homo immediately aud told on
himself. Ho told his mother. He did not
tell his Aunt Margaret
H's mother did not seem to bo ns
much shocked at his conduct us ho was.
But in her own quaint way she gave
him to understand thut promises wore
not nmdo to be crucked uny more than
they were made to bo broken—that ho
had been falso to himself in heurt, if not
in deed, and that ho must go buck and
ruako it “all right” with his Aunt Mar¬
garet. Sho did not. seem to bo very mnch
shocked either; ho could not toll why.
But they punished tho boy. They mudo
him eot tho rest of tho orange.
He lost all subsequent interest lu that
tropical glade, nnd lie has never cared
much for domestic oranges siuoe.—“A
Boy I Knew,” by LuurenooHuttou, in
St Nicholas,
FORGETFUL MR. BILLTOPS.
And How ClatulFS Shoes Finally Got to
the Shoemaker**.
"Forgetful?” wad Mr. Billtops.
"Well, well, well, I should say sol I
haven’t any memory at all. If I want
to romember any tiling, I have to make
B memorandum of it, and then twist the
paper ar«rt .d my key ring, c* abut it in
my knifed or tie If through tho ring of
my watcu, I can't remember anything
at till.
“Mrs. Billtops tried for days to get
me to take Claude's shoes to the shoe¬
maker's. He’d worn them through on
the soles und pnt on his best shoes to
wear while the others wero bolug fixed.
JSvery day Mrs. Hilltops would put the
bundle on tho table near me os 1 rcud
the paper and say:
‘Now, Ezra, don’t forget tbosboea *
n Aud 1 would look at tiiem aud say
oil right, and (ben forget all aboutthem
and go awuy without them.
•‘One morning Mrs. Billtops said to
me, ‘Ezra, X have put Claudo’s shoes in
your hat. ’
"That really did seem tike business
It did really seem as though when I
came to pick up my hat I would take
the bundle out of It and put the hut on
my head, and that then, being ready to
go and having the bundle actually in
my hands, I would tako it along aud
leave it nt the shoemaker’a. I laughed
to myself as I thought what a tremen¬
dously shrewd woman Mrs. Billtops i&
Bat—
“I am os particular ns I am forgetful.
I. never go out in tho morning without
first brushing my hat. I took the bundle
out of iuy bat and laid ikon tho table,
brushed my hat and—
“Mrs. Billtops looked at mo fast a
little reproachfully that night when I
came home, but that was all. Next dt\y
she took the shoes to tho shoemaker's
herself.”—New Fork Son.
The True Teat of Oyalerw
"The best oyster experts that I know
ot” said the captain of au oyster boat,
“Judge an oyster by the smell, instead
of by tho taste. There is something
about the smell of any oyster that indi¬
cates its condition to me mnch plainer
than doos the taste. People buy them
and eat them probably on account of
their taste. So also do they buy tea,
coffee and the various grades of whisky
aud brandy fur their taste, but all ex¬
perts on those things pass upon them
entirely by their smell. The professional
tea taster or whisky taster, so called,
never tastes them, but simply arrives at
their taste by their peculiarities of fla¬
vor, Or, to speak plainly, smell.
"I can toll what prioo a loud of crjra
ter8wlll be rated at when they arrive at
the wharf here by opening up the hold
of the boat and smelling. In eight coses
out of ten I am right It strikes oyster
men as strange when they see persons
going about fropa boat to boat, as they
lie at the wharf, tasting .oysters before
they conclude to buy. Tasto is all right,
but if they don't_8inoll right they will
never taste right 1 "—Washington Slur.
Shocking.
"All, a now drama!” repeated the
playwright. ‘‘About how indecent
would you like it?”
”0h, from 15 to 80 volts!” answered
the manager.
"Very well. ”
People were by no means ag easily
shocked os formerly, and art had to
govern itself accordingly. —Detroit
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